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Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 19, 2017
Sinister world of the dark web is just a few clicks away
The internet has long been an essential fixture of people's lives. But the candy-colored cupcake photos on Instagram and hilarious animal videos on YouTube are just the sugar-coated, cat-tastic surface of the internet.
WORLD
Jun 19, 2017
Google toughens measures to remove and restrict visibility of extremist content on YouTube
Alphabet Inc.'s Google will implement more measures to identify and remove terrorist or violent extremist content from its video sharing platform YouTube, the company said in a blog post Sunday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 16, 2017
Quantum computing, the machines of tomorrow
It is a sunny Tuesday morning in late March at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. The corridor from the reception area follows the long, curving glass curtain-wall that looks out over the visitors' parking lot to leafless trees covering a distant hill in Yorktown Heights, New York, an hour north...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 15, 2017
Line plans smart speaker to challenge Amazon, Google
Line Corp. said Thursday it plans to focus more on artificial intelligence, saying AI-related services will be the next big thing after the smartphone boom.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 8, 2017
China closes 60 celebrity gossip social media accounts
China's cyberspace authorities have ordered internet companies to close 60 popular celebrity gossip social media accounts in the latest in a series of crackdowns on independent media.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2017
Say goodbye to left and right and hello to digitalization
The concept of the state as a sort of ruling elite, or of 'the people' as the toiling masses, is beginning to melt away under the impact of digitization.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 2, 2017
Amazon comes knocking on remote Australia, where brick-and-mortar retailers are king
Amazon.com Inc., which has lost billions overseas trying to replicate its U.S. success, is now attempting to crack one of the biggest and most sparsely populated nations where bricks-and-mortar retailers are king.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 29, 2017
China to implement cybersecurity law from Thursday
China, battling increased threats from cyberterrorism and hacking, will adopt from Thursday a controversial law that mandates strict data surveillance and storage for firms working in the country, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
May 23, 2017
Symantec says 'highly likely' North Korea group behind 'WannaCry' ransomware attacks
Cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp. said on Monday it was "highly likely" a hacking group affiliated with North Korea was behind the "WannaCry" cyberattack this month that infected more than 300,000 computers worldwide and disrupted hospitals, banks and schools across the globe.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2017
America's dangerous internet delusion
The more we connect our devices and instruments to the internet, the more we create paths for others to use against us.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / FOCUS
May 21, 2017
North Korea's Unit 180, the cyberwarfare cell that worries the West
North Korea's main spy agency has a special cell called Unit 180 that is likely to have launched some of its most daring and successful cyberattacks, according to defectors, officials and internet security experts.
EDITORIALS
May 15, 2017
The 'WannaCry' wake-up call
The deepening integration of information technologies into all facets of daily life has created dangerous vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 14, 2017
Businesses bolster cyberdefenses against new 'WannaCry' ransomware attacks
Japan is among the countries affected by a global cyberattack, according to the cybersecurity firms Trend Micro and Kaspersky Lab, but the extent is not yet known.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 14, 2017
Racial and ethnic hate speech thrives in online games
Spend enough time hunting terrorists or wandering dystopian wastelands in online games and you are bound to come across players hurling xenophobic and racist taunts at each other, from Islamophobes in Europe to South Koreans and Japanese bickering over disputed islands.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 13, 2017
Hackers exploit stolen U.S. spy agency tool to launch global cyberattack
A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have been developed by the U.S. National Security Agency hit international shipper FedEx, disrupted Britain's health system and infected computers in nearly 100 countries on Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 11, 2017
Online agency seeks to streamline adoption in Japan
From a baby expected to be born in October in Osaka Prefecture to one in Tokyo with a due date in July, information of upcoming childbirths is listed on a website run by an Osaka-based nonprofit adoption agency urging prospective parents-to-be to register online.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 7, 2017
China announces regulations to further tighten control over internet
China will further tighten its internet regulations with a pledge Sunday to strengthen controls over search engines and online news portals, the latest step in President Xi Jinping's push to maintain strict control over content by the Communist Party.
COMMENTARY / World
May 2, 2017
The technology policy debate
With governments and citizens already struggling with the consequences of recent innovations — from job displacement to security risks — technology policy is likely to take center stage in the coming decade.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.

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